Four days into 2012, American Society of Safety Engineers’ President Terrie S. Norris issued a new year’s call to action via an ASSE press release.

Wisdom is an appreciation of how, why and when to apply knowledge.

The four-day conference draws thousands of industrial hygienists, union representatives, consultants, environmental health specialists, H.R. managers and government agency representatives who learn, network and exchange best practices in formal and informal settings.

Students and professionals will gather in San Antonio, Texas in October for AIHA Fall Conference 2012 – an event formerly known as PCIH.

On a cold winter’s day in the basement of Ergodyne’s St. Paul, Minnesota headquarters, the concept for an annual summer golf tournament was born.

Safety and health professionals routinely make presentations to their boss, their boss’s boss, and sometimes even the CEO to gain approval for an activity or to beg for funding to initiate a new program or sustain an existing program. Too often we are met with delays, resistance and rejection.

In the safety world, zero is the new name of the game. Have you heard of the Zero Injury Institute.com? Or slogans such as, “Target Zero,” and “We’re drilling toward zero.”

How often have you come up with a safety idea and found yourself beating your head against the wall trying to get buy-in?

Safety pros deal with human weaknesses probably more than anyone in the organization, save for perhaps HR.

Long before I became a safety professional I worked as a consultant to one of the former Big Three automobile manufacturers.